Cell Phone News
Samsung’s Blue Earth Uses Solar Power and is Touch Enabled
Samsung announced the Blue Earth, an environmentally-minded phone made from recycled materials that can use solar power to charge the battery. The solar cells are built into the back of the phone. The Blue Earth, which was designed to resemble a pebble, has a touch screen and custom-made user interface for input. It can go [...]
Skyfire Shoots Off Version 0.9 of Its Mobile Browser
Skyfire has released a new beta version of its mobile browser for the Nokia Symbian S60, Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard and Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platforms. The biggest updates to the browser include integration of Facebook and Twitter. Skyfire now features what it calls a real-time activity wall. This wall collects feeds from a user’s [...]
Pointui Home 2 Re-Shades Windows Mobile
Users interested in drastically changing the appearance of their Windows Mobile Professional (touch-based) user interface can use the newly available beta of Pointui Home 2. This software completely redecorates the screens and menus of Windows Mobile, supports high-resolution displays and is user configurable. A free beta of the software is available now with limited features. [...]
Immersion’s Touch Tech Bound for Pantech
Pantech has licensed Immersion Technology’s touch and haptic feedback technology and plans to use it in several upcoming phones. Pantech hopes that adding touch and haptic technology to its handsets will hope improve usability and the user experience. Pantech didn’t provide any specific details about the handsets that will use this touch technology.Read more from [...]
Nuance Makes T9Nav Available to S60 Handsets
Nuance Communications announced that its T9Nav software is now available for download to S60 handsets through Nokia’s Software Market. T9Nav is a tool for searching the handset for information. Rather tha digging through the S60 menu system, users can simply start tying a search query on the home screen to start searching. Using the keypad [...]
Opera to Turbo-Charge Mobile Browsing
Today Opera Software announced a new product that is meant to reduce data congestion and speed up browsing from the desktop as well as the mobile phone. According to Opera, Turbo is meant for network operators and handset manufacturers to deploy, it is not something that will be downloaded by end users. It uses Opera’s [...]
TeleNav Brings Turn-by-Turn Directions to HTC’s G1
TeleNav announced that it has made its navigation software and services available to the Android platform and the HTC G1. TeleNav GPS Navigator for the G1 will provide turn-by-turn GPS navigation with 3D maps, traffic alerts and one-click rerouting if drivers encounter traffic or other obstacles. The service will be able to recognize speech input [...]
Nokia’s Webmail on Ovi Now Live
The webmail version of Nokia’s Mail on Ovi service is now live in beta form. Webmail provides an application for managing an ovi.com email account, an address book for storing contacts, anti-spam and anti-virus controls, and a low-bandwidth version that works when broadband isn’t available. The service offers 1GB of online storage.Read more from the [...]
681 TV Stations Set to Kill Analog Signals Next Week
Despite the recent approval of a congressional bill supporting a four-month delay of the transition to digital TV signals, some 40% - 681 of about 1800 - TV stations plan to make the switch after February 17 anyway. The major networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, said that would continue to broadcast in analog and digital. [...]
Verizon Wireless Revamps Prepaid Options
On February 11, Verizon Wireless will introduce new prepaid services for customers not interested in post-paid accounts. The Prepaid Unlimited Talk plan provides users with unlimited calling to any number on any U.S. network for a daily fee of $3.99. This fee is only charged on days when calls are made/received. Text messages will cost [...]
